Hi Andy The best defence against phishing etc is common sense:
1. Never click a link in an email, if you think it might be real then just hover your mouse over the link and a tooltip will pop up showing where the link it is pointing to, anything that doesn’t end exactly in iCloud.com or apple.com <http://apple.com/> are phishing. Correct domains would include : appleid.apple.com <http://appleid.apple.com/> iforgot.apple.com <http://iforgot.apple.com/> support.apple.com <http://support.apple.com/> www.icloud.com Incorrect/phishing domains could include : appleid.myappleid.com iforgot.apple.support.com <http://iforgot.apple.support.com/> support.myicloudaccount.com <http://support.myicloudaccount.com/> If you think the email might be genuine, open a web browser and manually type in (or Google search for) the website of the company sending you the email, log into your account there and there should be a notification waiting for you. 2. If you think you’re at the right website, check the identity of the SSL certificate by clicking the padlock symbol on your browser’s URL bar (most browsers now show it there), it should match the website you’ve browsed to and be a valid certificate signed by a 3rd party such as Verisign (usually shows in green). If it’s a self-signed SSL certificate then you may have been redirected to a phishing site Programs like Rapport (forced on us by banks) and Avast/AVG/Sophos generally slow down your Mac, not enough resources are put into the development to optimise them to run as quickly as possible. Rapport is a regular culprit for flooding your Mac’s logs with errors. Personally, I’ve never used an antivirus program on the Mac and never had a problem but then I’m very careful with where I type my password in. AdWareMedic is free and brilliant at removing AdWare which installs itself usually by pretending to be something else, or tricking you into installing it by making spurious claims about speeding your Mac up. Regards Sam <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 13 Mar 2015, at 03:32, ARMS <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently came across this company https://www.avast.com/en-eu/about that > apparently provide security software for Mac against Physhing and suchlike > threats. > Since I spend most of my time in Spain now and access various online sites in > the UK such as online banking, I am concerned about identity theft. Would > this software be worth installing or is there another that is better? > Andy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
